Exorcising Blackness

by Trudier Harris

Book Overview

By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their writings. In doing so, they seem to be acting out a communal role--a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253319951
• ISBN13: 9780253319951
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher